Hi, The Apache Maven team is pleased to announce the release of the Apache Maven Shade Plugin, version 2.4.3
The release contains 4 bug fixes. Again we received contributions from the community in form of bug reports and bug fixes. Thank you and keep them coming! https://maven.apache.org/plugins/maven-shade-plugin/ You should specify the version in your project's plugin configuration: <plugin> <groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId> <artifactId>maven-shade-plugin</artifactId> <version>2.4.3</version> </plugin> Release Notes - Maven Shade Plugin - Version 2.4.3 <h2> Bug </h2> <ul> <li>[<a href='https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/MSHADE-171'>MSHADE-171</a>] - "Access Denied" on Windows because shade plugin seems to try to open a directory as Zip-File </li> <li>[<a href='https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/MSHADE-195'>MSHADE-195</a>] - createSourcesJar with source:jar-no-fork causes sources.jar to be deployed twice, causing the build to fail </li> </ul> <h2> Improvement </h2> <ul> <li>[<a href='https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/MSHADE-213'>MSHADE-213</a>] - Clarify contract of ResourceTransformer wrt closing of streams </li> <li>[<a href='https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/MSHADE-214'>MSHADE-214</a>] - Update jdependency to 1.1 to fix resource leaks </li> </ul> Enjoy, -The Apache Maven team
